Visual Resources

Celebrating 25 Years in 2009

2009 sees the silver anniversary of Visual Resources: An International Journal of Documentation (VR). Over the years, VR has published articles about verbal descriptions of art and architecture; copies, casts, and facsimiles; drawings, paintings, and prints; photography; library, archive, and museum collections; iconography; and computers and electronic imagery - and how these have functioned as documents of art and culture.

Now Available Online

In addition to the expanding range of articles found in Visual Resources, the journal also moved to online publication in 2008 to compliment the print copies of the journal which are available. This has allowed more people to receive access to VR and the research it publishes.

Celebrate with Free Online Access

To celebrate the journal’s silver anniversary – looking back to highlight the range and quality of articles published, and also looking forward to new possibilities with online dissemination – we are offering free online access to the following articles for the remainder of 2009.

“Des couleurs primitives”: Miscegenation and French Painting of Algeria
Peter Benson Miller
from the Special Issue “Imaging Blackness in the Long Nineteenth Century,” edited by Maria P. Gindhart

Spirits, Apparitions, and Traditions of Supernatural Photography
Daniel Wojcik
from the Special Issue “Visualizing the Invisible: Visionary Technologies in Religious and Cultural Contexts,” edited by Lisa Bitel

Looking the Wrong Way: Authenticity and Proof of Religious Vision
Lisa Bitel with images by Matt Gainer
from the Special Issue “Visualizing the Invisible: Visionary Technologies in Religious and Cultural Contexts,” edited by Lisa Bitel

“The war has turned our lives upside-down”: The Merit of Commercial Advertising in Documenting the Cultural History of the British Home Front in the Second World War
David Clampin from the Special Issue “Visual Collections as Historical Evidence,” edited by Criag Horner, Katy Layton-Jones, and David Stewart

“Ko to ringa ki nga rakau a te Pakeha” - Virtual Taonga Maori and Museums
Deidre Brown

Mirrors of Society: Versailles and the Use of Flat Reflected images
Felipe Chaimovich